Quotes by Barbara Amiel

• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
• Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
• The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
• All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.